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Article: WHY DID JOE KENNEDY EVER RUN IN THE FIRST PLACE?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 17, 1998
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The good news is that a Kennedy is giving up his seat in
Congress. The bad news is, the rest of them aren't.
Ted Kennedy, who has been a senator from Massachusetts longer
than most Massachusetts residents have been alive, and who has done
so much to improve the image of American politicians, isn't going
anywhere. His son Patrick, the Rhode Island congressman whose chief
accomplishments before entering politics were finishing high school
and undergoing drug rehab, isn't going anywhere either.
No, the only Kennedy giving up a political job he parachuted
into on the strength of his last name is Joseph P. II, who in 1985
dismissed Congress as something "crummy," a "bog" he had no
interest in, ...